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PC.773.091
29 Jul-2 Aug 1773:1093, 1101 (342)
A gentleman of an enterprizing genius in the fortune-hunting
way, well known at all public places, is at last, through
mistake, married, we hear, to a lady as enterprizing as
himself. This fair one appeared frequently this winter at
the opera and play-house, dressed extremely brilliant, has a
vast change of suberb jewels, which she disposed, in the
decoration of her person to the highest advantage, and had
also a very respectable acquaintance with her own sex in the
fashionable world; all which rendered her so irresistible to
the industrious gentleman that he pursued her incessantly,
and after a close siege of six weeks she condescended to
give him her hand. During the courtship, to the connubial
moment, he never once inquired into her fortune; her
connexions put her above inquiry. But in less that a
fortnight he found his way to her casket, and privately
taking away some of the diamonds, went to a jeweller to
dispose of them, when, to his horrid confusion, he was
informed they were false stones; upon which he went home,
replaced the imagined treasure, and, without giving a single
hint to the bride, decamped that night, and has not been
since heard of.
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